Praise Of My Lady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDAC EEAC FFAC GGAC BBAC HHBC IIAC JJAC HHAC KLAC MBAC BBAC NOAC PPAC EEAC QQAC HHAC HHAC PPAC RRAC AAACMy lady seems of ivory | A |
Forehead straight nose and cheeks that be | A |
Hollow'd a little mournfully | B |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Her forehead overshadow'd much | D |
By bows of hair has a wave such | D |
As God was good to make for me | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Not greatly long my lady's hair | E |
Nor yet with yellow colour fair | E |
But thick and crisp d wonderfully | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Heavy to make the pale face sad | F |
And dark but dead as though it had | F |
Been forged by God most wonderfully | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Of some strange metal thread by thread | G |
To stand out from my lady's head | G |
Not moving much to tangle me | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Beneath her brows the lids fall slow | B |
The lashes a clear shadow throw | B |
Where I would wish my lips to be | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Her great eyes standing far apart | H |
Draw up some memory from her heart | H |
And gaze out very mournfully | B |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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So beautiful and kind they are | I |
But most times looking out afar | I |
Waiting for something not for me | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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I wonder if the lashes long | J |
Are those that do her bright eyes wrong | J |
For always half tears seem to be | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Lurking below the underlid | H |
Darkening the place where they lie hid | H |
If they should rise and flow for me | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Her full lips being made to kiss | K |
Curl'd up and pensive each one is | L |
This makes me faint to stand and see | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Her lips are not contented now | M |
Because the hours pass so slow | B |
Towards a sweet time pray for me | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Nay hold thy peace for who can tell | B |
But this at least I know full well | B |
Her lips are parted longingly | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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So passionate and swift to move | N |
To pluck at any flying love | O |
That I grow faint to stand and see | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Yea there beneath them is her chin | P |
So fine and round it were a sin | P |
To feel no weaker when I see | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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God's dealings for with so much care | E |
And troublous faint lines wrought in there | E |
He finishes her face for me | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Of her long neck what shall I say | Q |
What things about her body's sway | Q |
Like a knight's pennon or slim tree | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Set gently waving in the wind | H |
Or her long hands that I may find | H |
On some day sweet to move o'er me | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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God pity me though if I miss'd | H |
The telling how along her wrist | H |
The veins creep dying languidly | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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Inside her tender palm and thin | P |
Now give me pardon dear wherein | P |
My voice is weak and vexes thee | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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All men that see her any time | R |
I charge you straightly in this rhyme | R |
What and wherever you may be | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
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To kneel before her as for me | A |
I choke and grow quite faint to see | A |
My lady moving graciously | A |
Beata mea Domina | C |
William Morris
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